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President Lincoln’s Cottage Celebrates One Year Anniversary
By Erin Carlson Mast Today marks the one year anniversary of opening President Lincoln’s Cottage to the public. The site opened following a 7 year project to research, restore, and interpret the Gothic Revival Cottage Lincoln lived in for a full quarter of his presidency, rehabilitate the historic landscape, and sustainably rehabilitate the 1905 Beaux Arts style building now known …
Read MoreLast Weekend to See “Deep & Subtle Expression”
By Erin Carlson Mast This is the last weekend to view the special exhibition, “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections, ” which closes on December 19th, 2008. The exhibition, located in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage, is open during regular visitor hours. Collections in the show are exclusively …
Read More“Deep & Subtle Expression” Exhibition Closes Tonight
By Erin Carlson Mast Today is the last day to view the special exhibition, “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections.” The exhibition is located in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage and will be open from 9:30am-4:30pm this evening: /visit/index.htm Collections in the show are exclusively from …
Read MoreWashington Times: “The many faces of Abraham Lincoln”
The Washington Times Sunday edition published an article written by Deborah Dietsch about the current special exhibit at the President Lincoln’s Cottage Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center, “A Deep & Subtle Expression.” Dietsch writes: “A small exhibition at the visitor center next to the newly restored Lincoln Cottage at the old Soldiers’ Home traces how some of these somber likenesses evolved …
Read MoreThe Lincoln Memorial-Making Powerhouse: Daniel Chester French & Henry Bacon
By Morgan Little Architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French’s professional collaboration began when Bacon built a studio and summer home for the sculptor (now known as Chesterwood, a National Trust for Historic Preservation site) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For the next twenty-five years, Bacon would design the architectural settings for over fifty of French’s public sculptures. One commentator made …
Read MoreKeck’s Lincoln Sculpture an Important Part of New Exhibit
By Jasper Collier In 1932, the town of Wabash, Indiana unveiled their newly completed sculpture of Abraham Lincoln on their courthouse lawn. The piece by sculptor Charles Keck remains one of the most realistic and human models of the sixteenth president. A maquette of Keck’s seated Lincoln has been on display in the Visitor Education Center at the President Lincoln’s …
Read MoreA Small, Yet “Excellent Likeness” of A. Lincoln
By Morgan Little Writing about his visit to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a grand celebration of America’s 100th birthday, Mark Twain had this to say, “I went there in July, & staid nearly a whole day; then I got discouraged & returned home. I became satisfied that it would take me two, or possibly three days to examine such …
Read MoreNew Exhibition Opens Today
By Erin Carlson Mast The new exhibition “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections” opens today, Friday, July 4th at 9:30 a.m. The exhibition is located in the Special Exhibit Gallery on the main floor of the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage. The exhibition will be open daily through December 19, 2008, …
Read More“A Deep and Subtle Expression” Exhibition Opens July 4th
By Erin Carlson Mast A new exhibition, “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections” will open to the public Friday, July 4th, in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage. The exhibition features collections from Historic Sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation including: President Lincoln’s Cottage, Woodrow Wilson House, …
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